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Bank and horse

The Bank is a deal table, usually 3 feet 4 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 3 feet high, used by pressmen to keep their paper upon. About five inches from the bottom of a board is placed within two inches of the length and breadth of the bank, and fastened to the legs, which serves as a convenient shelf for the pressmen to lay their worked-off heaps upon.

The paper Horse of a corresponding size is made of deal, 2 feet 2 inches long and 20 inches wide, forming an angle of 45 degrees, 6 inches of the higher end of it rising nearly to a perpendicular. The horse receives the wet paper, and is placed on the bank near the tympan.

Bank and horse

The Bank is a deal table, usually three feet four inches long, twenty-two inches wide, and three feet high, used by Pressmen to keep their paper upon. About five inches from the bottom of a board is placed within two inches of the length and breadth of the bank, and fastened to the legs, which serves as a convenient shelf for the Pressmen to lay their worked-off heaps upon.

The Paper -orse of a corresponding size is made of deal, two feet two inches long and twenty-four inches wide, forming an angle of forty-five degrees, six inches of the higher end of it rising nearly to a perpendicular. The horse receives the wet paper, and is placed on the bank near the tympan.

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